Ed Fauth

Tooling Manager @ Truck-Lite

About

Plastics Tooling Engineer for consumer products. Expert mold design through debug from 55 Ton POM Gear to 3000 Ton PP molds and everything in between. Equally skilled with Extrusion Blow, RIM and 3D printed molds. Highly skilled level with 3D programs Solidworks. Pro-E, Creo and Bently Micro Station. Expert level 2D CAD with AutoCAD and clone programs. RJG Master Molder 1 practicing scientific molding techniques since 2007.

Country

United States

City

Erie

Industry

Plastics

Skill

Plastics, Product Design, Injection Molding, Blow Molding, Machine Tools, Mechanical Engineering, Product Development, Creo Parametric, AutoCAD, Mold Flow, RIM Molding, Urethane, Fiberglass, 3D Printing, Rapid Prototyping, Industrial Design, PTC Creo, CAD, SolidWorks, Manufacturing

Experience

Tooling Manager

Truck-Lite

2023-2 - Present · 3 yrs 8 mos

Erie, Pennsylvania, United States

Project Engineer

Tessy Plastics Corp.

2020-1 - 2023-2 · 3 yrs 2 mos

Skaneateles Falls, New York, United States

Plastics Project Engineering

Plastics Tooling Engineer

Fisher-Price, Inc.

2005-8 - 2020-1 · 14 yrs 6 mos

Consulting Engineer: Support Product Designers, Product Development Engineers and Mechanical Designers on product/part configuration and manufacturing details. Program Management: By providing tool plans, preliminary mold design work, sourcing and selection activities. Hands on mold debug activity to manufactured molds including processing documentation. Manufacturing Support: By participating in the operation of molds and processing at the plant level as needed.

Plant Manager

Wausaukee Composites - Owosso

2003-5 - 2005-7 · 2 yrs 3 mos

Gillett WI

Management of day to day operations of custom fiberglass manufacturing facility. Facility consisted of 35 full time employees manufacturing components for Medical, Construction Equipment, Architectural, Recreation and Transportation industries. Practiced LEAN manufacturing techniques with Light RTM, Structural Foam RIM, as well as conventional composite lamination processes.

Plant Manager

CELT Specialty Partners / Just Toys

1998-1 - 2001-3 · 3 yrs 3 mos

Brockport NY

Management of day to day operations of captive toy manufacturing facility and warehouse/distribution center. Supervised 40 full time employees supported by as many as 90 temporary workers. Established JIT manufacturing methods and production lines to produce 120+ SKUs utilizing In house RIM flexible urethane; Injection molding; and vendor sourced injection molded, blow molded and extrusion components.

Plastics Tooling Engineer

Fisher-Price, Inc.

1995-7 - 1998-1 · 2 yrs 7 mos

East Aurora NY

Consulting Engineer: Suport Product Designers, Product Development Engineers and Mechanical Designers on product/part configuration and manufacturing details. Program Management: By providing tool plans, preliminary mold design work, sourcing and selection activities. Hands on mold debug activity to manufactured molds including processing documentation. Manufacturing Support: By participating in the operation of molds and processing at the plant level as needed.

Design Engineer

Celt Specialty Products Inc.

1992-2 - 1995-7 · 3 yrs 6 mos

Brockport NY

Converted design concepts and models into production components and assemblies. Designed and built high volume polyurethane toy manufacturing line that would become the foundation of the companies operations for the next nine years.